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Women, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies Department and Labor Studies program. In 2009, she was promoted to Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the university. She has served as interim Sociology Department Chair and the Graduate Program Director, as well as Director of the Institute for Social Science Research and Director of ADVANCE Programming.
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Misra is the
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Joya Misra’s numerous awards include the
Eastern Sociological Society Public Sociology Award (2022), the Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair (2022-2024), the University of Massachusetts Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship (2020–21), and the University of Massachusetts Chancellor’s Leadership
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Misra’s scholarship focuses on inequalities by gender and gender identity, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, citizenship, parenthood status and educational level. Much of her work considers how policies may both reinforce and lessen inequalities. Her research on work-family policies
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Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia in 1994, where she was affiliated with Women’s Studies. In 1999, she joined the Department of Sociology and Center for Public Policy & Administration at the University of Massachusetts, with affiliations with the
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In her 2003 article co-authored with Irene Browne, Misra identifies how the intersection of race and gender shape the US labor market, including wage inequality; discrimination and stereotyping; and immigration and domestic labor, establishing intersectionality as a foundational perspective to
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Misra is a celebrated teacher and mentor, receiving the
Sociologists for Women in Society Mentoring Award in 2010. At the University of Massachusetts, she was awarded the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award (2004–05) and the Sociology Mentoring Award (2009–10,
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Misra earned her bachelor's degree in
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